Kobe Bryant says Jeremy Lin shouldn't have been a surprise

Orlando, Fl — Kobe Bryant still has a few years before he's ready to own a team in the NBA but he still has some thoughts about how a team should be run.

He sees the emergence of New York Knicks superstar-in-waiting Jeremy Lin as something that shouldn't have been a surprise.

"The biggest thing to me is how everybody missed that," Bryant said. "They would all be fired if I was owning a team.

"I hear this stuff about how he came out of nowhere and I think it’s a load of crap. You can’t play that well and just come out of nowhere. There has to be something there and everybody missed it. So, heads would roll."